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I do not follow what the difference would be.
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What I meant by "dead battery" is a completely flat battery (0%) that, for some reason, reports 100%. (Possibly bad calibration or a side effect of being emptied before air shipping, and could be somehow refilled), and by "aging battery", a battery that had died with age and/or use, beyond safe repair (unsafe repair = replacement of the individual cells).
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Freeze the Kindle (with battery) before wall charging.
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It's been charging for seven hours or so since my last post (while I was out and hopefully distracted), but I've just returned, to see that nothing had changed in the meanwhile (except that the orange LED is now off).
I think I'm going to do just this ... but for how long do you suggest I freeze it? Minutes or hours?
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You will want to "wrap" the Kindle so that it does not gather moisture (condensation) when you take it out of the freezer.
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I think a ziploc bag would do, but how about a handful of rice in the same bag while in the freezer? (Rice absorbs moisture, but would it absorb it while in the freezer?)
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Whatever the case, aging or dead, buy a new battery.
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Cool, but I paid $20 (+$7 for shipping) for this Kindle Touch, while a battery from China costs $15 with shipping. It's roughly the price of a Kindle ... except that one can't gamble with buying another used Kindle now that this one turned out to be a lemon (did it?)